Flight from Hell or Heavenly Flight? What's your ratio?
Sep 15, 2011, 7:23 pm
#16
Suspended
Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 3,098
I would say it largely depends on the airline.
WN, 90% Hell, 10% Heaven
CO, 75% Hell, 25% Heaven
LH, 30% Hell, 70% Heaven
AC, 60% Hell, 40% Heaven
VS, 40% Hell, 60% Heaven
AA, 50/50
JAL, 10% Hell, 90 Heaven
DL, 85% Hell, 15% Heaven
UA, 95% Hell, 5% Heaven
Then, most of the commuters are generally hellish, but varrying degress of it. I sometimes take a 20 minute commuter on a Brasilia run by UA, and it's frequently hellish due to the way those tiny props bounce around in weather, but it's short. It's always full too.
Some flights, no matter what the airline, seem to have a convergence of crappy things happen all in the same flight.... delayed, kids all around you all screaming, a drunk two rows back, turbulence, fully packed, COS sitting beside you in the middle, missed upgrade, loud mouth two rows up, skipped over for drink service by a rude FA, cruddy landing and no gate ready. Oh, and someone always throws up. Sometimes it all happens on ONE flight, and those are the ones you remember most.
Other times, the reverse, everything good happens. I remember getting an unexpected UG on Qantas LAX-SYD to C, an airline I have 0 status on, for a 14 hour transpac. It was a 47, and biz was in the upper deck. Not sure why I got the UG at all..it was not full. No kids, quiet, smooth all the way, on time, good meal..very nice.
WN, 90% Hell, 10% Heaven
CO, 75% Hell, 25% Heaven
LH, 30% Hell, 70% Heaven
AC, 60% Hell, 40% Heaven
VS, 40% Hell, 60% Heaven
AA, 50/50
JAL, 10% Hell, 90 Heaven
DL, 85% Hell, 15% Heaven
UA, 95% Hell, 5% Heaven
Then, most of the commuters are generally hellish, but varrying degress of it. I sometimes take a 20 minute commuter on a Brasilia run by UA, and it's frequently hellish due to the way those tiny props bounce around in weather, but it's short. It's always full too.
Some flights, no matter what the airline, seem to have a convergence of crappy things happen all in the same flight.... delayed, kids all around you all screaming, a drunk two rows back, turbulence, fully packed, COS sitting beside you in the middle, missed upgrade, loud mouth two rows up, skipped over for drink service by a rude FA, cruddy landing and no gate ready. Oh, and someone always throws up. Sometimes it all happens on ONE flight, and those are the ones you remember most.
Other times, the reverse, everything good happens. I remember getting an unexpected UG on Qantas LAX-SYD to C, an airline I have 0 status on, for a 14 hour transpac. It was a 47, and biz was in the upper deck. Not sure why I got the UG at all..it was not full. No kids, quiet, smooth all the way, on time, good meal..very nice.
